Monday, March 28, 2016

Hola!

This week has been a good one for sure! Lots of contacting
because our lessons fall through a lot, but hey that's the mission life.

So even though it was my third Sunday in the field, the
first two were broadcasts for the whole district so this Sunday was my first
with my rama. Because it was my first President Orsua introduced me to the rama
and I got to introduce myself and share a short thought or scripture with the
ward. It went pretty well but I was super nervous because both the mission
President and the District President were there for some reason. Talk about
pressure! Anyways the second hour of church we have a gospel doctrines class
for new converts and investigators but the teacher didn't show up so President
Warne asked me and my compañera to teach it. Aaaaahhhhhhh! So Hna Aycho and I
just winged it and whenever it was my turn to teach I just asked questions and
made the Elders (there are two Elders in our rama too) and President Warne and
his wife answer them haha. Overall it went pretty well though.

However, none of our investigators attended church this
Sunday which was really sad because the baptism dates we had fell through. We
don`t have any progressing investigatory right now but we are working with a
lot of new people and I think a lot of them have a lot of potential so I`m
excited for them!

I`ve seen a noticeable difference in my Spanish this week.
Don't get me wrong I still can't talk well and still don't understand a lot, but I`m definitely starting to understand more, and I can feel God helping
me through each day. The mission life is crazy but its a great one and I`m
loving it! Guys the church is true and we are so blessed to have it. Don't take
it for granted and make sure to enjoy general conference this week (I feel like
general conference is like missionary Christmas. Everyone here is counting down
the days and I`m getting excited for it haha). Love you all! Have a great
week!

Hermana Wittwer

More mama answers:

Ok:

My companion is hna Aycho de Peru. She has one more cambio
in the mission and then she is out of here (crazy!). She is about half my
height and a mix between a mother hen and a 7 year old but I love her. She
is also very touchy which, you know, I love, lol. I am learning a lot from her
about how to love the people though, so she is great for me in that way.

I'm in San Fernando working in the Centenila sector. Try
google mapping villa independencia and see what happens.

The people are all very different. We have a lot of new
investigators but not a lot of progressing so we are working on that. For the
most part every one here is really nice but also every one here is catholic I
swear!

The food is amazing. Members feed us lunch every day and it
is usually about 2 hours. People here eat very small breakfast and dinner but
lunch is huge. I'm a little scared I'm going to gain like 27 lbs to be
honest.

Hasn't rained yet.

I forgot it was Easter for most the day, it was pretty
normal. We live with two other sister missionaries (gringas) though and one of
them shared her peeps with us! Your package still hasn't come yet but hopefully
this week is the week.